My Micra

yeah, they are 6000k colour and are only ever so slightly blue once they have warmed up, but blue when first switched on. touble is, on the micra, when you put main beam on, it switches off the dipped beam, so main beam isn't as good as dipped, even with the driving lights on!!!

here's a few pics of the dfference with hids'.
(it's a shame the k11 switches off the dipped beam when switching to full beam)

hid dipped beam



full beam (with driving lamps)



hid dipped beam at dusk



full beam at dusk (with driving lamps again)



man, i've got to modify the wiring so the dipped beam stays on with full!!!
(btw, the lights are angled down more than usual due to the rear being stripped out temporarily)

Smart little motor there, looks great.

Id bin the greenstuff though, get yellow, braided hoses and 5.1 fluid and it really will stop well!

I use Ferodo DS 2500 pads with DBA 5000 series discs with alloy bells..........i was warned away from EBC \"stuff\" pads on my GTR.........i had \"Red Stuff\" pads with 3G Discs on an S14 i used to own,and they were ok....but i never really noticed a significant improvement over the standard set-up.......!!!!!!!

i went for the green stuff for their low dust qualities.
you've got to remember that the brakes i'm fitting are for a much heavier/more powerful car. there would be a difference going to these brakes with cheap pads, so anything better than that would be good.

also
fitted some genuine nissan rear led lights today, they are from taiwan, who still get my shape micra instead of the ugly newer k12. so they get more modern parts for the k11. i just needed to add a red bulb for the rear fog as they come with twin reverse lights standard.

before





after

if it was me id fit a colour coded pre facelift boot handle, i think the nissan badged ones are too big.

lookin good though dude!

Rear lights look very good.........

tommo wrote:

if it was me id fit a colour coded pre facelift boot handle, i think the nissan badged ones are too big.

lookin good though dude!

i agree, but i don't know if you remember my last micra, but i still have the jdm plate holder from it i've got some rubber edge seal aswell for it now to hide the gaps it leaves , it's on my long list of things to do.
heres a pic of it on my old one (it's dans now)




Andy G wrote:

Rear lights look very good.........

cheers andy, i didn't like them at first, but they've grown on me, nice and different

oooh seems like a good idea...

Was that last piccy taken at JAE.......the background looks familiar

Andy G wrote:

Was that last piccy taken at JAE.......the background looks familiar

yeah, that was jae 2006, i took the green machine to 2007 and i can't wait for 2008.

Not sure if any of us are going to this years show..........a lot of the guy's feel it's too far for a weekend.........im still undecided........trouble is there won't be much of a club stand with most of the guy's missing.......

Andy G wrote:

Not sure if any of us are going to this years show..........a lot of the guy's feel it's too far for a weekend.........im still undecided........trouble is there won't be much of a club stand with most of the guy's missing.......

well tell them to get there asses in gear lol. it's more than a weekend aswell, esp with the extra day they've put on, so 4 days including the set up day, that's nearly a week

Think we will all have to have another discussion.........

finally all my dash pieces have arrived back from being flocked.
check it out.





thoughts?